Monthly Archives: August 2021

2021-08-29: News Headlines

Editor2 (2021-08-29). Dozens of Palestinians Injured in Israeli Crackdown on Protests. orinocotribune.com Tens of Palestinians were wounded as Israeli troops attacked several anti-settlement protests across the occupied West Bank on Friday. | Two Palestinians were hit by rubber bullets fired by the Israeli troops at a weekly anti-settlement rally in the flashpoint town of Beita, south of Nablus. The Palestine Red Crescent ambulance service said 26 others suffered breathing difficulties due to inhaling tear gas fired by the Israeli forces. | Since May, Beita has seen intensified clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians protesting against a settlement outpost that has been recently established on Sobeih Mountain…

Allan Fisher (2021-08-29). Saturday 8/28: Free Palestine. indybay.org Corner of Water and Ocean Streets, Santa Cruz…

Anonymous669 (2021-08-29). New Escalation In Gaza: Israel Struck Hamas Positions Following Violent Protests (Photos, Videos). southfront.org FILE PHOTO: Israeli F-15 fighter jet © Reuters | Early on August 29, Israeli warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip in response to what was called "riots" by Palestinian protesters. | In a statement, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said that the airstrikes hit a military compound used for manufacturing weapons and training as well as an entrance to a tunnel of the Hamas Movement, the de-facto ruler of Gaza. | "The strikes were in response to Hamas launching incendiary balloons into Israeli territ…

Anonymous103 (2021-08-29). Bennett Had A "Great Meeting" With "Sleepy Joe" Amid Approaching Resumption Of Nuclear Talks. southfront.org

Staff (2021-08-28). More Labor Unions Are Answering the Call for Solidarity With Palestine. truthout.org This article was originally published at In May, Palestinian workers urgently appealed for international solidarity against a sharp escalation of Israeli violence. Their appeals have been met with an unprecedented response — even in the United States, where labor officialdom has long supported the world's last remaining apartheid regime. | This dramatic shift is reflected in statem…

thelancet (2021-08-28). [Department of Error] Department of Error. thelancet.com Abed SN, Al Attar S, Shaikh Khalil B, et al. Quality of early essential newborn care in hospitals in Gaza: a pre-intervention and post-intervention study. Lancet 2021; 398 (suppl): S2—In this Abstract, the spelling of author Luca Ronfani's name was incorrect. This correction has been made to the online version as of Aug 26, 2021.

Angela (2021-08-28). Sunday 9/12: Virtual Cookbook Launch: "A Taste of Gaza" indybay.org

_____ (2021-08-28). Iran Can Respond To America's 'Other Options'. popularresistance.org US President Joe Biden said the US can turn to "other options" should negotiations with Iran fail. A senior Iranian official responded, saying it's an illegal threat and that Tehran has the right to respond in kind. | The warning from Tehran was voiced on Saturday by the secretary the Supreme National Security Council, Admiral Ali Shamkhani, who tweeted it in Farsi, English, Hebrew, and Arabic. He noted the "emphasis on using 'Other Options' against Iran" expressed during a meeting between President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the White House on Friday. The signal was "an illegal threat to…

Staff (2021-08-28). Parole board votes to release Robert F. Kennedy's assassin following his 16th parole hearing. rt.com A California parole board has voted to release Sirhan Sirhan — who killed US Senator Robert F. Kennedy — from prison after more than 50 years behind bars. The 77-year-old has said he shot the lawmaker over his support for Israel.

Brenda Norrell (2021-08-28). O'odham Voice Against the Wall Releases New Report on Elbit Spy Towers. indybay.org O'odham Voice Against the Wall demands a halt to the destruction and surveillance underway by Israel's Elbit Systems on the Tohono O'odham Nation and an end to the militarization by the U.S. Border Patrol, in a new 81-page report released to the world today.

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2021-08-28: News Headlines

Staff (2021-08-28). More Labor Unions Are Answering the Call for Solidarity With Palestine. truthout.org This article was originally published at In May, Palestinian workers urgently appealed for international solidarity against a sharp escalation of Israeli violence. Their appeals have been met with an unprecedented response — even in the United States, where labor officialdom has long supported the world's last remaining apartheid regime. | This dramatic shift is reflected in statem…

Allan Fisher (2021-08-28). Saturday 8/28: Free Palestine. indybay.org Corner of Water and Ocean Streets, Santa Cruz…

thelancet (2021-08-28). [Department of Error] Department of Error. thelancet.com Abed SN, Al Attar S, Shaikh Khalil B, et al. Quality of early essential newborn care in hospitals in Gaza: a pre-intervention and post-intervention study. Lancet 2021; 398 (suppl): S2—In this Abstract, the spelling of author Luca Ronfani's name was incorrect. This correction has been made to the online version as of Aug 26, 2021.

Angela (2021-08-28). Sunday 9/12: Virtual Cookbook Launch: "A Taste of Gaza" indybay.org

_____ (2021-08-28). Iran Can Respond To America's 'Other Options'. popularresistance.org US President Joe Biden said the US can turn to "other options" should negotiations with Iran fail. A senior Iranian official responded, saying it's an illegal threat and that Tehran has the right to respond in kind. | The warning from Tehran was voiced on Saturday by the secretary the Supreme National Security Council, Admiral Ali Shamkhani, who tweeted it in Farsi, English, Hebrew, and Arabic. He noted the "emphasis on using 'Other Options' against Iran" expressed during a meeting between President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the White House on Friday. The signal was "an illegal threat to…

Staff (2021-08-28). Parole board votes to release Robert F. Kennedy's assassin following his 16th parole hearing. rt.com A California parole board has voted to release Sirhan Sirhan — who killed US Senator Robert F. Kennedy — from prison after more than 50 years behind bars. The 77-year-old has said he shot the lawmaker over his support for Israel.

Brenda Norrell (2021-08-28). O'odham Voice Against the Wall Releases New Report on Elbit Spy Towers. indybay.org O'odham Voice Against the Wall demands a halt to the destruction and surveillance underway by Israel's Elbit Systems on the Tohono O'odham Nation and an end to the militarization by the U.S. Border Patrol, in a new 81-page report released to the world today.

_____ (2021-08-27). Pro-Palestine Activists Rally Against Israeli Prime Minister Visit. popularresistance.org Washington D.C. – Dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators rallied near the White House on Thursday to denounce a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to Washington. | Protesters rallied near the White House lawn to call for an end to US military and diplomatic support for Israel, citing Israel's human rights violations against Palestinians. | US President Joe Biden was set to meet Bennett at 15: 30 GMT, but the talks were moved to Friday following developments in Kabul where two suicide bombers killed and wounded scores of Afghans who had amassed outside Kabul airport. | Shortly before departing Israel…

Rainer Shea (2021-08-27). US Empire Reacts to Afghanistan Loss With Brutality & Terror. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Aug 25, 2021 | As imperialism has run its machinations within the different conditions of the world, it's turned these places into different types of tools for innovating in necro-politics. Israel is the U.S. empire's laboratory in repression, with the brutal anti-Palestinian tactics of the Zionist forces being used to train police in the U.S. and Colombia. Latin America is the empire's laboratory in the paramilitary facets of this repression, with the death squads in countries like Colombia being replicated in domestic U.S. militias like the Proud Boys and the Three Percenters. And Africa i…

_____ (2021-08-27). 'The Answer Cannot Be More War,' House Dem Says After Deadly Attack in Afghanistan. commondreams.org The demand comes as Biden is set to have his first meeting with the far-right Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.

Hatem Abudayyeh (2021-08-27). Jan Schakowsky, progressive except for Palestine. electronicintifada.net Chicago activists challenge congresswoman on her failure to support Palestinian children.

Gershon Baskin (2021-08-27). Can Zionism and Palestinian nationalism live together? zcomm.org At the root of this conflict has been a majority of people on both sides demand for the right to attain a territorial expression of their collective identity…

Editor (2021-08-27). AJC is panicked by United Church of Christ's solidarity with Palestinians under settler-colonialism. mronline.org The United Church of Christ resolution calling Israel's continued "oppression" of Palestinians a "sin" has alarmed the American Jewish Committee and for good reason: Other Protestant churches are sure to follow, with measures that pose a real threat to apartheid.

Ramzy Baroud (2021-08-27). Palestine's Africa Dichotomy: Is Israel Really 'Winning' Africa? counterpunch.org The decision by the African Union Commission, on July 22, to grant Israel observer status membership in the AU was the culmination of years of relentless Israeli efforts aimed at co-opting Africa's largest political institution. Why is Israel so keen on penetrating Africa? What made African countries finally succumb to Israeli pressure and lobbying? To

Sarah Lahm (2021-08-27). Midwest Dispatch: The U.S. Government Might Be Paying Someone to Monitor You. progressive.org A recent report outlines how an Israeli company is capturing and selling your activity on social media to local authorities—including the police.

Sahand Yazdanyar (2021-08-27). Biden says he's prioritizing Human Rights, but is welcoming an Israeli Prime Minister who boasts about War Crimes. juancole.com ( Otherwords.org ) — Biden can't say he's putting human rights first and then welcome a prime minister who boasts about war crimes to the White House. By Sahand Yazdanyar | August 25, 2021 In April 1996, Israeli artillery shells rained down on a United Nations compound where hundreds of civilians were taking refuge. As …

Anonymous007 (2021-08-27). U.S. Opts Out Of Purchasing Israeli Iron Dome: Defense News. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The US Army has This comes in spite of the United States military having successfully carried out a first live-fire test of the missile defense system. | According to a report in Defense News website, Washington opted for Enduring Shi…

_____ (2021-08-27). Biden Urged to Push Israeli PM to End 'Systematic Human Rights Abuses'. commondreams.org Insurance companies' opposition to comprehensive coverage, said one lawmaker, is "all the more reason, in my opinion, that we need to do it."

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